Unbelievable news came last week from the Kyoto University Observatory at Kyoto, Japanthe discovery of a new planet 11,000 miles in diameter and only 180,000,000 miles from the earth! No planet so large and near (the earth's diameter is 7,918 mi., its distance from the sun 92,900,000 mi.) could exist beyond modern astronomers' knowledge. They long ago would have spied it with their telescopes, if not with their unaided eyes. Or they would have calculated its existence, as the late Percival Lowell calculated the existence of the unseen planet Pluto (TIME, June 2,...
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